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Promoting overseas trade and the founding of a navy, Richelieu also launched France on the road to empire with the colonization of Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean.
Guadeloupe and Martinique became full départements of France in 1946 — a source of great pride to many.
Perhaps 2,000 years ago, Indians sometimes called “Saloides” from the Orinoco basin in South America began migrating up the Antilles chain, reaching Martinique and Guadeloupe before a.d. 200.
Opting, as a dubious second best, for eight years of British occupation in 1794, the island managed to retain slavery and avoid the revolutionary terror that Guadeloupe underwent.
Some years later, French colonizers moved south to both Guadeloupe and Martinique.